RAP CATEGORY IN THE UPCOMING HIPHOP WORLD AWARDS.

The rap category in the upcoming hip hop world awards comprises of four album nominations, and i can tell you it is not going to be an easy pick. The four rap albums nominated for album of the year are, "lord of ajasa's" "second turning to the left", modenine's "paradigm shift", m.i's "talk about it", and naeto c's "you know my p" album. I have personally listened to this four albums, and i can say they are all classic material.
All the four artist killed it in their on zone, or accomplished what they had in mind when they set out to make the album, perfectly. Naeto c is the swagger rapper, with songs you can bump in your car(good production all through the album). Lord of ajasa brought that yoruba mixed with english rap style, and i can say he killed it with the stories he has on the album, and catchy choruses(i actually thought i was going to get bored listening to the album, but i did not skip one song.). M.I, Mr Incredible, came with the lyrically proficiency all through the album mixed with a lot of whitty rhymes. You would wonder how he manages to cook up so much lyrics in such a short verse. And each song has that high point where you would want to shout WHAT!!! Last, but definately not the list, Modenine, the lyrical messiah of rap in Nigeria. You would know this guy had fallen in love with words early in life. It's like he has a dicionary in his head. Mr lyrically, KRS ONE of our Generation, the metephorical genius. The album achieves what i felt he had lacked on his previous albums, he had interesting topic matters, and he utilized his lyrically ability better than ever.
The awards are not untill May, so we still have some time to analyze this albums untill then. So i am going to review the four albums one after the other starting with naeto c's album. That would probably be tomorrow.

WHY DO NIGERIAN RAPPERS ALWAYS TRY TO SOUND FOREIGN.

We are Nigerians, we are Africans, even if english is our lingua franca, it does not mean you have to sound like the americans. You hear rappers talking with a foreign tone when they are being interviewed, but when you check them on their own, probably with their people, they sound so different. Why must you want to be like another people. Why can't you be proud of where you are from, and let people differentiate you from the rest of the world. Instead, you hear our rappers saying nigger in their rap, or talking about using guns, tell me, how many of them carry guns around. And you here them saying things like "ya mean", and stuff like that. They talk about drinks they can not afford, or have not seen. Drinks like "ace of spades", "crystal", "hypnotic" just to mention a few.
I am not saying you have to rap in broken english, or rap in your native language, but at least give the audience stories of what is really going on around you. When an american rapper is talking about 64 chevy's, and impala's, and gang banging, it's because that is what they are going through and what they see and are cars they drive in the hood. That is what they are exposed to at that very point in time. American rapper, "jadakiss" said in his rap, "why ain't you a thug by choice". What he was trying to say was that the gangsta rappers rap about the situation, or the environment they were put in. They are put in housing projects that house thousands of people, with bad facilities, and don't get to get good jobs. So to live well, they are forced to live a life of crime. That is what jadakisss was trying to say. If they had a choice, they would live a better life.
So what is the case with the nigerian rapper. I really want to know.

THE WHITE MAN'S GAINS FROM RAP MUSIC.

Isn't it ironic how the white community keep blaiming all the violence in the society on black music, when they make the must gains from the industry. Not to even add that rock is a more demoralizing genre of music than rap and the the music style is dominated by whites.
What i mean by the title i gave this post is that, if you check out the people that stand to gain from every black artist/rapper that comes up, it's the white man. And the black man keeps on handing their had earned money over to the white man. Whether they know it or ignorant about it, they are still like slaves working for the white man, but with a little freedom. I mean a little freedom, cos once they cross the line, the white man finds a way to throw them in jail.
Isn't it funny that the everything the black man uses the money he makes from the music business to buy, profits the white man 100% of the time. The black rapper gets an advance of about $200,000 dollars, and what does he do, he goes out and gets a big ass car, like a range rover, or a cadilac, even if he is still living with his mom, and who gains from this, the car company. Who owns the car company? The white man. Or he goes and buys and buys jewels from someone like jacob arabo, who makes money from that? Certainly not the black man.
He never thinks of something on the long run, he just wants to feel good and have all what he does not have now. He spends on crystal, hennessy, all sorts of expensive drinks, that he should not be buying right now, cos he does not have any money put down for investing in the rainy day.
Then the worst part of the story is that the black rapper, after decades of being in the music industry still allows the black man rule him, and get his money when it comes to getting money from record sales. If you check it, all the major labels that your favorite artist like 50 cent, t.i, rick ross, and the likes are on are all owned by white men. Jive records, intescope records, just to mention a few are owned by white men, and they hand down peanuts to the artist under their labels, and they get the mighty share. Imagine artist on major labels get as low as 35cents on one cd sale. That is 35cents out of a cd sale of 16 dollar. How pitiful is that.
And yet they keep condeming the rappers. When nas wanted to drop his nigger album last year, they put so much pressure on him, that he had to change the title. Accusing him of promoting violence, but they give movie directors that make movies like "kill bill" and "grind house" oscars, and celebrate them.
The black race needs to wake up!!

BILLBOARD TOP TEN RAP ALBUMS.

10. JOE BUDDEN- PADDED ROOM.

9. DJ DA JUICE MAN- THE OTHA SIDE OF THE TRAP.

8. NOTORIOUS- SOUNDTRACK.

7. PROJECT PAT- REAL RECOGNISE REAL.

6. YOUNG JEEZY- RECESSION.

5. SOULJA BOY- ISOULJABOYTEELEM.

4. LUDACRIS- THEATER OF THE MIND.

3. PLIES- DAREALIST.

2. LIL WAYNE. CARTER 3.(12,200)

1. T.I- PAPER TRAIL.(23,300)

a liltle on the aftermath dynasty

dre is planning to drop his detox finally sometime this year, after we have waited 5 years. Eminem is also planning to drop his album, plus an extra cd. that got 50 cent thinking, cos he is thinking of also dropping two albums this year. I wish him all the luck with that idea.
Eminem's single,crack a bottle, broke download record as it was downloaded over 400,000 times in its first week in sales, but sadly, flo rida broke the record the next week, with doownloads of over 600,000.
50 cent is using his beef with rick ross to stay relevant, and maybe it would help him.
I wish the three legends the best, in this new world with the t.i's and the wayne's.

BILLBOARD TOP TEN RAP ALBUMS.

10. NOTORIOUS- SOUNDTRACK.

9. G.UNIT- TERMINATE ON SIGHT.

8. NELLY- BRASS KNUCKLES.

7. PROJECT PAT- REAL RECOGNIZE REAL.

6. SOULJA BOY- ISOULJABOYTELLEM.

5. young jeezy- recession.

4. plies- da realist.

3. LUDACRIS- THEATER OF THE MIND.

2. LIL WAYNE- CARTER 3 (13,900)

3. T.I- PAPER TRAIL (23,600)

M.I'S INTERVIEW ON TOP FM.

Rapper M.i was on the top of the morning show on top fm, wednesday morning. He answered some questions on his upcoming album, who he is listening to right now, what he has in stock for fans, his new mixtape(illegal music), but what really caught my attention was the question on the modenine and ruggedman beef.
The ever energetic presenter, tosin, asked him his oppinion on the mode and rugged beef, trying to make him take sides. He tried answering in a very diplomatic way, but it was more on what he says about the two mc's that caught my attention.
He said the two are the greats in hiphop in nigeria, i am okay with that. But when he compares Modenine with the late notorious big, now that is blasphemy. Biggie was very versatile compared to mode. Mode is more of a krs one. Mode is a lyricist, but he can't be compared to big, i aint buying that, and trust me, i do a lot of shoping. He now went on to compare rugged man with tupac. Tupac was a poet, and a revolutionary rapper, nothing like what rugged man is doing right now.
I am a big fan of m.i's rap, but i am not riding with him on this one.